…Take the bizarre lighting of Hanukkah candles in the White House last week presided over by a smiling African-American antisemite and in the presence of the President of Israel, an excellent specimen of a post-Jewish Israeli hayseed.

Also present and sermonizing was another excellent specimen not from Israel but the United States, a dejudaized Jewess who used the occasion to say not a word about the miracle the candles represent engineered by the G-d of Israel.

Indeed, she reflected in the candles and saw something else entirely: they were meant to “say no to the darkness of Islamophobia and homophobia and transphobia.” “Inshallah, inshallah” which means in Arabic, “God willing, Allah willing.” Another example of a dejudaized American legally a Jew but drained entirely of Jewish principles and historical knowledge.

And how ironic since this holiday calls to mind the Greek culture that was being imposed on the Children of Israel by the Seleucid Greeks and assisted by dejudaizing Jewish helpers. In fact, the war of the Maccabees began with the killing of such a Jew trying to collect taxes for the Seleucid regime that had outlawed Shabbos, circumcision, kashrut…